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Map of the world by the Spanish cosmographer Alonzo de Santa Cruz, 1542

by: Santa Cruz, Alonso de, 1505-1567; Dahlgren, E. W. (Erik Wilhelm), 1848-1934

Publication date: 1892

Topics: World maps

Publisher: Stockholm : Royal Print. Office

Collection: normanbleventhalmapcenter; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: Latin; English

Volume: text

" ... The globe is divided into two hemispheres ... composed respectively of 36 gores ... the whole represents a globe with a radius of 194.8 millimetres"--Explanations, p. 10

Includes discoveries up to 1539

Dedicated to Baron Adolf Erik Nordenskiold, the great explorer, the distinguished scholar, the most eminent authority on early chartography on the sixieth anniversary of his birthday, the 18th November 1892

"Of the phototypic facsimiles representing Santa Cruz's map one hundred copies are printed."

Boston Public Library copy previously under call number: Atlas 10.4.1542